Force-pump



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC KETTLER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

FORCE-PUMP.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,877, dated J u1`y 26, 1859.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIC KETTLER, of the city and county of Milwaukee and State of lVisconsin, have invented a new and Original Machinery of a Force-Pump to Supply an Engine with lVater, and do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

' This engine has thirtytwo pumps, when it is of a common size and will throw out every minute seven hundred gallons of water. Through the operation and construction of the machinery the water will be forced more regularly and in a greater quantity through the pipes of the engine.

Figure l represents a side elevation of the engine and Fig. 2 the plan.

Similar letters refer to like parts.

a is a hollow space or vessel. This vessel has a movable cover which will be fastened air tight to sustain the pressure of the water if the machinery is in operation.

A are two cylinders which are fastened on the right and left below the back part 0f the vessel a. The pipes S are fastened to the cylinders and are intended to draw the water out the well and to force it by means of valves through the pipe t into the vessel a as is indicated by arrowheads.

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are different views which show the working of the valves C and levers F, g, 7L, and are drawn on a larger scale. Through the center of the cylinders A an axis c moves itself freely by means of cranks R. B is a rotary cylinder which has on each end a flange Q and is fastened to this axis k. C are the valves which work exactly between the flanges Q and close to the surface of this cylinder B. Every valve has two journals V which pass through the flanges.

On the outer sides of the flanges the levers F are represented,-they are fastened on the journals V and serve to open the valves C by means of the lever g. The levers L are fastened within the stationary cylinders A and are intended to shut the valves C. The levers g are also fastened in the center of this cylinder and are intended 'to open the valves C. If the cylinder B receives now its rotary motion by the cranks R the levers F come rst in contact with the levers g and cause to open the valves C-and when afterward with the levers la they will be shut again. This vessel a is filled with water to the top of the above placed pipe Z by means of two sets of pumps, in Figs. 3, l and 5 described. Within this vessel a number of pumps of a smaller size as described in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are in working and force their water through smaller pipes into the tube m which is secured below the vessel cz.

U is the discharge pipe which is fastened to the tube m.

The toothed wheels O are working freely in the'frame p by means of cranks-and t-he toothed wheel M which is fastened on the axis la, is connected with those in O by means of a chain D. Those wheels and the cranks K are used to produce the rotary motion of the machinery in the cylinder A.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination and arrangement of a force pump as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

FREDERIC KETTLER.

Witnesses:

W. MERTZ, JOHN S. HOLLINGSHEAD. 

